.png) The Cotopaxi in Pará, Brazil, 1919
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Cotopaxi |
| Namesake | Cotopaxi volcano |
| Owner |
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| Ordered | 5 March 1918 |
| Builder | Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse |
| Cost | US$827,648.48 |
| Yard number | 209 |
| Laid down | 29 August 1918 |
| Launched | 15 November 1918 |
| Commissioned | 30 November 1918 |
| Homeport | New York |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Foundered off Jacksonville, Florida, December 1925 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Design 1060 ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 253 ft 0 in (77.11 m) registered length |
| Beam | 43 ft 8 in (13.31 m) |
| Depth | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | Great Lakes Engineering Works 3-cylinder triple expansion |
| Speed | 9.0 knots (16.7 km/h; 10.4 mph) |
| Crew | 30-32 |
| Part of a series on the |
| Paranormal |
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SS Cotopaxi was an Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) Design 1060 bulk carrier built for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) under the World War I emergency shipbuilding program. The ship, launched 15 November 1918, was named after the Cotopaxi stratovolcano of Ecuador. The ship arrived in Boston, 22 December 1918, to begin operations for the USSB, through 23 December 1919, when Cotopaxi was delivered to the Clinchfield Navigation Company under terms of sale.
During operation for the USSB the ship suffered serious damage in a grounding on the coast of Brazil, and later, operating for Clinchfield Navigation, was involved in a collision with a tug in Havana, Cuba, resulting in the tug being sunk. She and a crew of thirty-two vanished in December 1925, while en route from Charleston, South Carolina, to Havana, with a cargo of coal.
The wreck was discovered in the 1980s, but not identified until January 2020.